Journal article
Reliability and validity of the Vietnamese version of the 9-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale
TTT Tran, K Watanabe, K Imamura, HT Nguyen, N Sasaki, K Kuribayashi, A Sakuraya, NT Nguyen, TM Bui, QT Nguyen, TQ Truong, GTH Nguyen, H Minas, A Tsustumi, A Shimazu, N Kawakami
Journal of Occupational Health | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2020
Abstract
Objectives: The present study investigated the reliability and validity of a newly developed Vietnamese version of the 9-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9-V) in a sample of hospital nurses in Hanoi, Vietnam. Methods: The UWES-9 was translated into Vietnamese following a standard procedure. A survey was conducted of 949 registered nurses in a large tertiary general hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2018, using a self-administered questionnaire including the Vietnamese UWES-9, other scales measuring health status, work performance, job demand, job control, and workplace social support, and questions pertaining to demographic variables. Cronbach’s alpha and interclass correlation coeffici..
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Awarded by Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the support and contribution of the Board of Directors and the Nursing Office in Bach Mai hospital for the implementation of this study. We thank all nurses who participated in and provided their information for the study and highly appreciate the contribution of a research team from Hanoi University of Public Health, an important partner in making this study possible.